Returning to the Eternal Religion
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How will they understand the mellows of devotional service? O Lord, I am simply praying for Your mercy so that I will be able to convince them about Your message.
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All living entities have become under the control of the illusory energy by Your will, and therefore, if You like, by Your will they can also be released from the clutches of illusion.
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I wish that You may deliver them. Therefore if You so desire their deliverance, then only will they be able to understand Your message.
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The words of the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  are Your incarnation, and if a sober person repeatedly receives them with submissive aural reception, then he will be able to understand Your message.
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It is said in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  [1.2.17–21]: “Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramātmā [Supersoul] in everyone’s heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who relishes His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted. By regularly hearing the  Bhāgavatam  and rendering service unto the pure devotee, all that is troublesome to the heart is practically destroyed, and loving service unto the glorious Lord, who is praised with transcendental songs, is established as an irrevocable fact. At the time loving service is established in the heart, the modes of passion [ rajas ] and ignorance [ tamas ], and lust and desire [ kāma ] disappear from the heart. Then the devotee is established in goodness and he becomes happy. Thus established in the mode of goodness, the man rejuvenated by loving service to the Lord gains liberation from material association [ mukti ] and comes to know scientifically of the Personality of Godhead. Thus the